Do you even need a database?

Post by andsoitis » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 11:34 AM UTC

bsenftner wrote: post #29

fatih-erikli-cg wrote: post #11

I agree. Databases are useless. You don't even need to load it into the memory. Reading it from the disk when there is a need to read something must be ok. I don't believe the case that there are billions of records so the database must be something optimized for handling it. That amount of records most likely is something like access logs etc, I think they should not be stored at all, for such case. Even it's postgr…

I worked as a software engineer for 30 years before being forced to use a database, and that was for a web site. I've been coding actively, daily, since the 70's. Forever we just wrote proprietary files to disk, and that was the norm, for decades. Many a new developer can't even imagine writing their own proprietary file formats, the idea literally scares them. The engineers produced today are a shadow of what they u…